Research Catalog

Title

Drawing from life : memory and subjectivity in comic art / edited by Jane Tolmie.

Publication

• Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

Tolmie, Jane

Description

xxiii, 300 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Alternative Title

Memory and subjectivity in comic art

Subjects

• Cartooning > Technique
• Biography as a literary form
• Memory
• Literature
• Comic books, strips, etc > Technique
• Comic books, strips, etc > Authorship
• Autobiography > Authorship
• Memory in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: If a body meets a body / Jane Tolmie -- Allusive confession: The literary lives of Alison Bechdel's Fun home / David M. Ball -- What is experience? Selves and texts in the comic autobiographies of Alison Bechdel and Lynda Berry / Yaël Schlick -- Animal subjects of the graphic novel / Michael A. Chaney -- Uncaging and reframing Martin Vaughn-James's The cage / Jan Baetens -- Comics as non-sequential art: Chris Ware's Joseph Cornell / Benjamin Widiss -- Yukiko's Spinach and the Nouvelle manga aesthetic / Christopher Bush -- Memory, signal, and noise in the collaborations of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean / Isaac Cates -- The graphic memoir in a state of exception: Transformations of the personal in Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers / Lopamudra Basu -- History, memory, and trauma: Confronting dominant interpretations of 9/11 in Alissa Torres's American widow and Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers / Davida Pines -- You must look at the personal clutter: Diaristic indulgence, female adolescence, and feminist autobiography / Alisia Chase -- A female prophet? Authority and inheritance in Marjane Satrapi / Rachel Trousdale -- Showing the voice of the body: Brian Fies's Mom's cancer, the graphic illness memoir, and the narrative of hope / Sharon O'Brien -- Contributors -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781617039058 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1617039055 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781617039065 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013018142

OCLC

• 837957661
• SCSB-10897371

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library